[Plate 58.] 
THE LODDIGES LILY, 
(LILIUM LODDIGESIANUM.) 
Plant f% 
^jjtrtftr C^&arartcr. 
TRE LODBIQES LILY. Leaves close, alternate, spread- 
ing, here and there whorled, ovate-lanceolate, rather ob- 
tuse, on the underside, especially at the edge and veins 
slightly downy, the uppermost gradually smaller. Raceme 
erect, few-flowered. Flowers drooping, two or three 
times as long as their stalk. Divisions of the flower 
rolled back. 
LILIUM LODDIGESIANUM ; foliis conferte sparsis pa- 
tentibus hfnc inde subverticillatis ovato-Ianceolatis obtuai- 
usculis subtus prseaertim in margine venisque puberulia 
superne gradatim decrescentibus, racemo erecto paucifloro, 
floribus cemuis pedicello duplo triplove longioribus, caljci- 
bus revolutis. — Kunih^ en^m. 4. 26 L 
L. Loddigesianura : Somer and Scliultes, Systenia^ 7. ^15. Marren, Annalcs d^ Oaudy vol, ii., p. 363, t. 85. 
rTHis fine 
Mr 
monarleljj/iuju. 
A few months later it came from Dr. Fisclier^ of St. Petersburg, mider 
name. 
Yet it is in no degree monadelphous ; ou the contrary, its stamens are distinct to the 
very base. 
Lilium monadelphum was so called 
size 
united 
ring- 
Romer and Schultes add that cultivated plants raised from Crimean seeds grew from 2 to 4. 
rh. with camnanulate flowers, tubular at the base, and spreading at the point, but in no degree 
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